[syslinux] PXEboot trouble with Soekris 4826

[sritej s]

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Miller, Shao
<Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca>wrote:

> Good day Sritej,
>
> In regards to your PXE-booting challenge, I have a few thoughts:
> - I don't see a problem with using just "pxelinux.0" in your dhcpd.conf
> file; it's probably the right thing to do
> - I wonder if you actually manage to download PXELINUX and see it report
> anything.  I'm not clear on if you were saying that your challenge
> disappears if you use the DHCP filename response "pxelinux.0"
> - Tools like tcpdump and Wireshark can help to see exactly what's
> happening on the network, and may be revealing
> - /tftpboot/ filesystem permissions might be worth checking
> - Manually using a TFTP client (Linux/BSD/Windows/DOS) and attempting to
> download from your TFTP service can be a good test for TFTP
> functionality
>
> I hope some of these thoughts help you out!
>
> - Shao Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [mailto:syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On
> Behalf Of sritej s
> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 20:36
> To: syslinux at zytor.com
> Subject: [syslinux] PXEboot trouble with Soekris 4826
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am having trouble with booting a soekris 4826 board.after setting up
> my
> tftp,dhcp and web servers ,I log into the board using minicom and type
> boot
> f0,which doesn't quite work out.
>
> > boot f0
>
> NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
> All rights reserved.
>
> Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
> Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation
>
>
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C8 C9 60
> CLIENT IP: 192.168.200.3  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 192.168.200.1
>
> It just stops at this point,doesnt freeze.My dhcp is configured
> correctly I
> guess but I suspect my tftp is not ,because when I mention an incorrect
> file
> name in the dhcpd.conf file,it immediately reports file not found.There
> must
> be a problem with the file transfer.
>
> My dhcp file is like this
> /etc/dhcpd.conf
> ddns-update-style none;
> # option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 600;
>
> subnet 192.168.200.0 netmask 255.255.255.0  {
>  range 192.168.200.2 192.168.200.3;
>  # option broadcast-address 10.2.1.31;
>  # option routers 10.2.1.1;
>  allow booting;
>  allow bootp;
>
>  next-server 192.168.200.1;
> #filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0"; when this statement is used,file not
> found
> is reported
>  filename "pxelinux.0";
> }
>
> I installed tftp server using tft-hpa-0.46 package.Then i made changes
> to
>
> xinetd.conf file :
>
> defaults
> {
>        instances               = 60
>        log_type                = SYSLOG authpriv
>        log_on_success          = HOST PID
>        log_on_failure          = HOST
>        cps                     = 25 30
> }
>
> includedir /etc/xinetd.d
>
> service tftp
> {
>        disable = no
>        socket_type = dgram
>        protocol = udp
>        wait = yes
>        user = root
>        server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
>        server_args = -s /tftpboot
>        per_source      =11
>        cps             =100 2
>        flags           =IPv4
> }
>
> (there are also a few tftp files in the xinetd.d directory).
> My /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg has the file C0 which is like this:
>
> (I use a USB-serial port connector)
>
> SERIAL 0 19200
> DEFAULT /vmlinuz console=ttys0,19200,n8 initrd=initrd.img
> ramdisk_size=8192
> root=/dev/ram0
>
> my initrd.img is in the /tftpboot directory and the final images are in
> the
> /var/www directory.
>
> I use a USB-serial port connector.
>
> Did I miss anything?
>
> Thank you for your time.
> Sritej
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Hi All,

I am still having trouble with booting my soekris board.The client gets an
IP address but I am still unable to ping it.Please follow this link to see
the output of  tcpdump

http://fserv.skill-club.com/get_965_4c97.html

Thank You,
Sritej

Thanks,
Sritej